Rome Test for 7th Grade

Anno domini or the year of our lord

All Roman citizens were part of an assembly. They could declare war or agree to keep peace turms

Germanic warriors

Before the common era

Fought against Rome during the Punic Wars three times. 246 BC, 218 BC, and 149 BC

They were administrators and military leaders. 2 consuls were elected each year. The two consuls could veto the actions of the other. They came from Rome's most powerful families.

"power to the people" government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is invested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

A person invested with supreme authority

A sequence of rulers from the same family or stock or group.

The male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empiree

A group of nationsor peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress or other powerful sovereign or government; usaully a territory of greater extent then a kingdom.

An ancient country of west-central Italy in present day Tuscany and parts of Umbria. It was the center if Etruscan civilization, which spread throughout much of Italy before being supplanted by Rome in the third century BC. In C. 800 BCthey settled in Etruria. Invented the arch, alpabet, seyer systems, and gladitorial games.

The grachus brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were a pair of young menknown as tribunes in 2nd century BC who attempted to pass a land reform legislation in Anient Rome that would redistribute the magor patrician landholdings among the plebians.

A male soverign or monarch; a man whio is the cheif authority over a country and the people.

A nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.